US still superpower of spam

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The United States is still the superpower of spam, beating China
and South Korea to reclaim the dubious honour in the latest survey
of spam.

Security firm Sophos also found in the survey of the "dirty
dozen" top spamming nations that 'zombie computers' - hijacked PCs
often in different countries than the spammer - were now to blame
for 60 per cent of the world's spam.

Between April and September of this year, 26.4 per cent of the
spam analysed by Sophos emanated from the US, compared to 41.5 per
cent for the corresponding period the year before, according to
Sophos.

South Korea and China held the next two spots, with their spam
production rising fast. South Korea was 19.7 per cent of the
world's spam, compared to 11.6 per cent the year before.

China was pegged at 15.7 per cent, up more than six per cent
from the same time period in 2004.

In August, three people in the United States were indicted and a
fourth pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the first case related
to the transmission of obscene spam e-mails under a 2003 US
anti-spam law, known as CAN-SPAM.

Authorities from the United States and 25 other countries in May
launched a new initiative to crack down on spam sent through
hijacked computers, or "zombies."

Survey results were distilled from analysis by Sophos of its
global network of spam traps.

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